In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.